Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Apple, Dynegy, Flowserve, Lear, Nokia and Verizon Communications.
With a possible tie-up of Sprint and T-Mobile a new possibility, deal-hungry AT&T may reappear to reverse its largest M&A failure.
Although there is a big fight in the wireless space to grab as many customers as possible, the question remains which company is actually offering the best unlimited data plan.
Verizon and T-Mobile run neck-and-neck in high-speed data network connectivity and speed.
While the stock picks and holdings of Warren Buffett and his portfolio managers are always followed closely, the number of changes for the 2017 portfolio was huge.
Berkshire Hathaway has released its public equity holdings as of December 31, 2016, and the number of changes in the equity portfolio were nothing short of massive.
These five stocks pay solid distributions, are not trading at all-time highs and are rated Buy at Merrill Lynch. They make good sense should a big sell-off hit the market.
With long-term rates looking like they will stay at historically low levels for the next couple of years, dividend-paying stocks make even more sense than ever.
Verizon, Home Depot, UnitedHealth, and Intel sink DJIA on Monday.
The worst performing Dow stock so far in 2017 is Verizon. The telecom giant's stock is down 9% year to date.
Paul Ausick If these Merrill Lynch sector picks provide total return and alpha, the upside potential for investors is outstanding.
The development of a Facebook app that would run on a set-top box like Apple TV could pose a major threat to both big media and telecom companies.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday include BP, Fitbit, Randgold Resources, SLM, Teva Pharmaceuticals, T-Mobile and GoPro.
The worst performing stock among the Dow 30 so far in 2017 is Verizon. Quarterly earnings were disappointing, and the company's outlook for 2017 was less than energizing for investors.
What investors have to consider when weighing AT&T versus Verizon is how each company wants to align itself ahead. Each company is taking a different path, which means that earnings might be…
